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WordofSouth.com: What's going on with you?

Project Pat: Ah, man I'm too good to be trippin', what it is?

WordofSouth.com: You have been out of jail for almost a year now?

Project Pat: I say July, August will be a year.

WordofSouth.com: Alright, so I know when you are on the street, people come up to you all day, but when you were locked up, what was it like. Did you have people coming to you left and right saying, "Man check out this verse," or whatever?

Project Pat: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had that. It was cool though, had a lot of talented guys in there too. Real talented, some boys with some heat.

WordofSouth.com: Was there anybody you might've wanted to keep under your wing?

Project Pat: Ah, man there was a few of 'em man, but they had too much time.

WordofSouth.com: Oh alright.

Project Pat: They had too much time, you know unless God sends them a blessing. Know what I'm saying, they looking like, man when they get out, my kids will be 25 and 26. And they four and six now.

WordofSouth.com: About a month ago, I talked to Pimp C, and I was saying how it was a good year for the south, how he got out, you got out, C-Murder got out, well C ain't all the way out, he's on house arrest. I said, "I'd love to hear a track with just everybody on there." He told me, "You know it might not just be a song, it might be a whole album, but we just gonna wait on Mystikal." Has he talked to you about that?

Project Pat: Yeah, Pimp had mentioned to me something about it. I told him, "Man I'm all for it," because, that's a real good idea. I like that, I'm definitely for that.

WordofSouth.com: Yeah, I like it myself. Recently, word has been put out that Crunchy Black left. Did he say anything about that to you, or was it a surprise?

Project Pat: Man that was a trip. It was a surprise, and me personally, I don't know nothing about it, because I got the news last. So when I got the news, I was like, "Man for real?" It just messed me up and I don't even know why. We trying to find out why. People in the streets that he roll tight with saying they ain't heard from him.

WordofSouth.com: So what you're saying is that you are just like everybody else, clueless?

Project Pat: Yeah, and for a time like right now, everything is too good. I don't understand why. I mean, I gotta keep it moving.

WordofSouth.com: Right now, Houston is doing well. They have their screwed up movement. Memphis, I don't want to say that you all were similar to it, but you were on it too, as far as everything with the syrup and I'm guessing that's why you hooked up with UGK for that track.

Project Pat: Yeah, we collabed with Pimp really because that's our partner, that's our boy. He was the perfect key to the formula to that song.

WordofSouth.com: Was you feeling DJ Screw before he passed?

Project Pat: Oh yeah, I was feeling Screw, know what I'm saying. Memphis was on the Screw, but not like that though. But yeah, I was feeling DJ Screw. I respect him, I heard how he was getting it. I heard the Feds tried to indict him one time because they thought he was selling dope. Know what I'm saying then when they found it was cd's… Ah man.

WordofSouth.com: Well, why do you think Memphis has yet to be put on like Houston? You know not to take any credit away from Three 6 Mafia and 8Ball & MJG, but it seems like that's the only ones, when people say Memphis. You know it's not like Houston, people will think, Slim Thug, Chamillionaire, Scarface, Mike Jones, and so on.

Project Pat: Yeah, I see what you saying. Well you know the thing is Memphis is a nice size city. It's 90% black. And really Memphis should've been on, because a lot of sound that is out now, is Memphis based. It really should've been on. It's a lot of guys too from Memphis, that major record companies will try to holler at them, but you know we got Select-O-Hits out here. That's a major underground distributor. So they running around here getting money with their own record company. So when a bigger company comes from the East Coast or wherever and they say, "Man we wanna put you on major," they say, "I'm cool. I'm sitting on a bank." That's really, that's another thing, a lot of these guys in Memphis, and they don't wanna break no bread with majors. But a lot of guys down here man, Memphis is straight dirty south, and it's dirty south mentality. You coming from somewhere else, trying to get something from me. So a lot of guys they don't even wanna venture out.

WordofSouth.com: Along with putting the mainstream albums out, you also put out a lot of underground albums with Select-O-Hits. What is your mindset when recording the mainstream or underground albums?

Project Pat: I try to keep it the same way. With "Murderers & Robbers," that was an underground album that I had recorded a long time ago, and I had the mixtape come out right before I got out. And those were old songs too on that mixtape that came out. I guess you could say we put 100% in that and 110% in the mainstream, because it's just that it's mainstream. But yeah, I feel what you saying though.

WordofSouth.com: Memphis has a long catalog of artist from; Al Kapone, 8Ball & MJG, and Yo Gotti. Specifically, with Yo Gotti, it seems like he really has something against you guys and I've been listening to Yo Gotti, but I haven't really found out what it is. So what's the tension between you all?

Project Pat: Well, the thing is uh, not that I know of, I love the brother, I wanna see him come on down and do his thing and make some money, because that's what we trying to do is make some money, everything else is irrelevant. So as far as some beef, naw ain't no beef over here man, its love over here man, we getting blessings, we ain't on that. Know what I'm saying? A nigga just trying to keep his pockets fat. Like Nino Brown said back in "New Jack City, 'Let the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.'" Either you got it, or you ain't got it. I gotta have it.

WordofSouth.com: Are you saying it might be possible on your end, to do collaboration?

Project Pat: Ah, man, check this out; I'll collab with a monkey if he put some cheese on the table. It can be a baboon. Me and the baboon can get down! Its real business man, the bread can be broke with a moose. All I wanna do is break that bread and make that happen. And guess what? I'm gonna wang on the song, (laughs!) Yeah, I'm gonna wang on the song!

WordofSouth.com: (Laughs!) Well, let's talk about your album coming up. "Crook by the Book," what can we expect from that?

Project Pat: "Crook by the Book, the Fed Story." I'm just keeping it straight Project Pat. Know what I'm saying straight street. Straight dirty south. I'm just bringing some heat to the table, know what I'm saying, its some flames out here. Its some flames out here. There's a lot of guys out here, and coming out of Atlanta and a lot of other different places, and you know and I'm liking that, but I'm just out here at the table, trying to eat too. It's all good though. Now they bringing dances to the table, dirty south, now they flipping this thing around again. Know what I'm saying, and I'm loving it. You got your snap music coming out of Atlanta, and some other areas coming with different stomps and Three 6 Mafia got the "Moving my body from side to side," Joc got a motorcycle dance, (Laughs!), know what I'm saying? Dirty south, I'm loving it.

WordofSouth.com: Did you work with producers other than Juicy J and DJ Paul on the album? What about outside features?

Project Pat: No, it's straight Hypnotize man. But you know as far as collabs, I got Young Jeezy and Lyfe Jennings on a song called, "Tell, Tell, Tell." Yeeeeah!

WordofSouth.com: That's on your album?

Project Pat: Yeah, that's on "Crook by the Book, The Fed Story." But, I'm bout working with artist, I'm for that. I'll work with who ever.

WordofSouth.com: Right, right, like you said, you'll work with a monkey? (Laughs!)

Project Pat: Man, a MONKEY! (Laughs!)

WordofSouth.com: After Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar, did anybody ever come to you and say, "Alright, now we gotta make a lil' bit more friendly approach to things, so we can maintain that exposure?"

Project Pat: Yeah, yeah, I know what you talking about. See the thing is the Oscar was won off of a gutter song. "It's hard out here for a pimp!" Know what I'm saying. It's a gutter song, why in the world would you add two more pinches of salt, when it only asking for a half of pinch. You know you don't wanna put no excess rue in the gumbo you know what I'm saying? (Laughs!) We ain't with that.

WordofSouth.com: I feel that though, so you are just going to straight just keep it street, keep it gutter, all the way 100?

Project Pat: All the way 100 man, and get the people that who was looking for more friendly, ON OUR STYLE! Get them on dirty south's time. Because you know what I mean, the south like that, the south street. That's just is. Just think about it for a second, you don't hear no south rappers coming off friendly. Everybody talking about, the shake joints, the big rims, the Kush. We ain't got nothing else to talk about. A lot of people, I done had people question me talking about, "Well why the south always...," That's what it is! We ain't got nothing else to talk about. Man are you for real? This ain't Mr. Rogers.

WordofSouth.com: What about the "Choices 3," has the filming began for that?

Project Pat: Naw, we ain't started filming that, but we got the script wrote though. It's gonna be, ah man, it's gonna be fire. It's Pat getting out of jail, and he taking the streets back, by any means necessary.

WordofSouth.com: Do you have an idea of when you are going to start filming?

Project Pat: Well, we kind of thinking about towards the end of the year. The only reason we thinking about that is because Project Pat is a demand, Three 6 Mafia is in demand. So we kind of working on that, and we just got through filming for this reality show on MTV called, "Hustle in Holly Hood." Ya feel what I'm saying?

WordofSouth.com: Yeah.

Project Pat: "Hustle in Holly Hood," bout some dirty south rappers, making it big in Holly Wood. Know what I'm saying, you see the title, "Holly Hood." (Laughs!)

WordofSouth.com: What's going on with "Crunk Fest," this year? Do you know anything going on with it?

Project Pat: As far just different cities or just Memphis?

WordofSouth.com: Memphis.

Project Pat: Oh, it's going down. We gonna shut the house down. Anybody who come from out of town, we gonna shut the house down, they gonna see it too.

WordofSouth.com: Can you give away any hints on it? Something for someone out of town that will just make them want to come out there.

Project Pat: Ah man, check this out, check this out. It's gonna be like live in the raw. In the raw, and it's gonna be straight dirty south, M-Town style. And as far as people wanna see "get buck, get crunk, get wild," all that, that's definitely what you gonna see at "Crunk Fest." I hope and pray don't nothing bad happen, but there's no telling what's gonna happen.

WordofSouth.com: Well look man, I appreciate your time. Do you want to give a shout out or anything?

Project Pat: Shout out to all the fans and all the dirty. Everybody that was down from the beginning of time, we love you. Hypnotize Mindz got much respect for you, and man you know what I'm saying, we definitely trying to make this thing happen.